The historical monastic complex, which dates back to 829 AD, is 35 kilometers from Karpenisi. On the path that leads to the Monastery, there are the footprints of the Virgin Mary, seven shapes of different colors which, according to sacred tradition, are the traces left by the Virgin Mary on her way to Prousos on the vertical rock that exists at this point.

The icon of Panagia Prousiotissa is considered miraculous and for this reason it attracts many believers from Greece and abroad, while the silver cover of the icon was donated by the leader of the Revolution of 1821, George Karaiskakis, to be cured of an illness from which he suffered during his stay in the monastery in the middle of the Revolution. In fact, the cell where the hero of 1821 lived still exists in the monastery.

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